He was born around the year 420 AH.
Al-Silafī said: “He was trustworthy and ascetic.”
Ibn Nāṣir stated: “He died in Jumada al-Ākhirah, 507 AH, and he asked to be buried next to Ibrāhīm al-Ḥarbī.”
I add: Among those who recited to him were Abū Muḥammad, the grandson of al-Khayyāṭ, and ʿAbd al-Wahhāb ibn Muḥammad al-Ṣābūnī.
Abū Muḥammad said: “I recited to him the book al-Jāmiʿ by Abū al-Ḥasan al-Khayyāṭ (1), and he in turn had recited it before its author.”
222 – Ibn Mallah, Abū ʿUthmān Ismāʿīl ibn Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad *
The shaykh, scholar, ḥadīth transmitter, and preacher Abū ʿUthmān Ismāʿīl ibn Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn Jaʿfar ibn Abī Saʿīd ibn Mallah al-Iṣbahānī, the muḥtasib, renowned for those famous gatherings.
He heard ḥadīth from: Abū Bakr ibn Raydhah, a companion of al-Ṭabarānī, and Abū Ṭāhir ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥīm,